#music

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to. ↗

— Moby

#college #community #community college #i #life

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. ↗

— Robert Morris

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I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music. ↗

— Robert Morris

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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#big influence #elvis #influence #lynn #music

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves. ↗

— Bijou Phillips

#anything #decision #gone #i #interpret

No one is perfect. Everyone has skeletons in their closet, and umm... I believe in letting those skeletons out, the truth will set you free. ↗

— Jayy Von Monroe

#life #musician #inspirational

The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through the performance, and the performer and the listener will walk together with the soul of the composer, and with God. ↗

— Mstislav Rostropovich

#love

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#bluegrass #blues #classical #creative #i

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two? ↗

— David Byrne

#life #meaning #music #ocean #pleasure